Independence Day special: Watch Rabindranath Tagore singing the National Anthem

Independence Day special: Watch Rabindranath Tagore singing the National Anthem

Watch the man who gave us our national anthem sing it.

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New Delhi

August 15, 2016

UPDATED: August 16, 2016 08:59 IST

Rabindranath Tagore

On this Independence Day watch Rabindranath Tagore, the man who gave us our national anthem, sing it. Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar and Malayalam actor Prithviraj shared this video on their Facebook page and it has gone viral.

Tagore wrote Jana Gana Mana in Bengali in 1911 and its first rendition was during a Indian National Congress convention in December 1911. The song was made India's national anthem only on January 24, 1950.

The Nobel laureate was not only a poet but a novelist, philosopher and a painter as well. In fact, as a painter he played an important role in modernising Bengali art.

As a mark of respect to Tagore's nationalism which involved giving up his knighthood to protest British policies in colonial India, Odisha government will install his statue at a school in Jagatsinghpur district.